Coat and hat hook



(No Model.)

P. TAYLOR.

G'AT AND HAT HOOK. No. 374,015. VPatented Nov. 29, 1887.

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UNITED STATES` FREDERICK TAYLOR, OF LOIVELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

COAT ANO HAT HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,015, dated November 29, 1887,

(No model.)

'o allzu/tom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States, residing'at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Coat and Hat Hooks, of which the following is a specification. l

My invention relates to hat and coat hooks,

consisting of a wire bent to forni a coat or clothes hook and a hat-hook, said hooks being connected by a braceand secured, substantially as hereinafter described, to a laterallyprojecting plate.

lnthe accompanying drawings, Figures 1, 3, and 4 are isometric views of hooks constructed according to my improvement, each figure being slightly modified from the others; Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section of the attachingLplate, through lthe center of the same, on the line zr 0c in Fig. l, the hooks proper being broken away.

The plate A is of sheet metal, best formed by punching the same out of a larger sheet. The plate A has attaching-eyes aa punched in it, through which wood-screws are driven into the object to which the hook is to be attached. Open eyes B B are formed at the bottom, as shown in Figs. l and 3, or at the top and bottoni, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, to serve as means of attaching the wire portion of the hook to the plate. The eyes B B are formed in ears projecting from the top and bottoni of said plate, and bent at right angles to said plate, each eye' being open or formed in two parts, b b', the opening of the eye being at the end of `said ear farthest from said plate proper.

The wire part of the hook consists of a hathook, a horizontal arm, E, attached to the plate, as hereinafter described, a coat-hook, C, and an S-shaped brace connecting saidhathook with said coat-hook.

In all the figures the wire is continued up vertically from the coat-hook C, through the lower eye, B', of the plate A, and is then bent backward into or through the plate A, the

open eye B being closed around the vertical back, as shown in all the gures.

In Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the backward extension d of the back D serves no other purpose than to prevent said back D from rising or turning in the lower open eye, B; but in Fig. 4 said backward extension is carried entirely through the plate at d', and is screw-,threaded to form an attaching-point by which the hook may be secured to a cleat or wall.

In Figs. l, 2, and 3 an altachingpoint, d2, which serves the same purpose as the attach- Ying-point d', above described, is formed on the rear end of the horizontal arm E, which, in said lastnamed figures, is represented as projecting through the plate A.

In Figs. l and 2 the attaching-point d2 is represented as being a continuation in a straight line ofthe horizontal arm E; but in Fig. 3 the attaching-point is parallel to the arm E; but this arm E is offset at O, the offset portion being at right angles with said arm and with the attaching-point and resting against the face of the plate A, and being held against' said plate by the upper open eye, B, the parts of which are each bent against the front of said offset from opposite sides thereof. In Fig. 4 the arm E is also offset, just as in Fig. 3; but the part of the wire in the rear of the offset does not project on the back side of the plate A, and does not therefore serve as an attaching-point.

The construction above described prevents the wire portion of the hook from moving either laterally or vertically on the wall-plate A, and also prevents said wire portion from being accidentally detached from said plate, and the plate, when properly secured, prevents the hook, as a whole, from moving on the object to which it is attached.

I claim as my invention- The combination of a plate provided with one or more attachingeyes and with holes to admit the ends ofthe wire named below, and provided also with one or more ears bent at about right angles to said plate, said ears being provided with eyes open at the ends of said ears, and a wire bent to form hooks, and a brace connecting said hooks, one end of said wire being passed through one of said ears and bent into'a hole in lsaid plate, and the other end of said wire being passed through another hole in said plate and screw-threaded in the rear of said plate to form an attaching-point for said hook, as and for the purpose specified.

. FREDERICK TAYLOR.

Witnesses:`

ALEERE` M. MOORE, KIRKLY HYDE..

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